Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
I see what you're saying, and you are spot on that only a context driven/derived system will ever work, but democracy really is just a system -and you only have to look around the world (not just the west) to see how many permutations there can be of supposedly successful forms to (IMO) see that it can work for everyone.
That's a bit of a missionaries take, the west isn't the east. Democracy is something that naturally evolved here because of a quazillions of reasons, but it's a poor export product without them